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Mitchell Schwartz is one of eleven candidates challenging incumbent Eric Garcetti to be the next mayor of Los Angeles. A Democrat who directed Barack Obama's 2008 campaign in California, Schwartz says Mayor Garcetti is ducking the issue of rising crime.
Democrat Bob Derlet, of Sonora, will challenge Republican incumbent Rep. Tom McClintock, of Elk Grove, in California's GOP-leaning 4th Congressional District, which covers Tuolumne, Calaveras and five other Sierra foothill counties. The Democratic candidate who is challenging the Mother Lode's incumbent Republican congressman, Rep. Tom McClintock of Roseville, issued a statement Friday questioning whether McClintock is "dodging" constituent concerns about the tree mortality crisis that has killed 66 million trees in the Sierra Nevada.
Donald Trump has started whining about the presidential debates, perhaps setting the stage for skipping them. It should be a reminder that the tradition of televised presidential debates has always been something of a miracle - one that didn't have to become established, and one that could end fairly easily.